Matt Weis

Matthew Weis currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer at National Able Network. Previously, Mr. Weis was National Able Network’s Chief Program Officer (CPO). As CPO, Mr. Weis developed and implemented a number of strategies to ensure operational continuity and ongoing adaptation to the changing job market for National Able Network’s core programs at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Mr. Weis joined National Able Network in 2014 to oversee career pathway programs that help vulnerable job seekers and led significant programmatic expansion efforts of the IT Career Lab vocational training operations, as well as the IT Sector Center funded via the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership.

Growing up in a rural Wisconsin farming community and working alongside migrant farm workers during his first job, at an early age Mr. Weis was exposed to the connection between work, dignity, and the universal impact that family-sustaining employment can have on people from diverse backgrounds. He is a fierce advocate and practitioner of transitional jobs and other subsidized employment programs and has managed employment contracts with the Chicago Housing Authority, the City of Chicago, the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and more.